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Various USB Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc6

10 hodin 17 min zpět
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel due out on Sunday, this week's round of USB fixes have been merged with various new device quirks added as well as some patches as a result of scanning tools...

Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O

30. Květen 2026 - 18:08
Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!..

NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default

30. Květen 2026 - 15:05
NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager...

AMD Submits More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.2

30. Květen 2026 - 14:39
On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June...

AMD Expands The Range Of Zen 6 CPUs Detected By The Linux Kernel

30. Květen 2026 - 11:47
The latest open-source/Linux patch activity around AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors is expanding the range of the CPU models detected by the Linux kernel...

G7 Agrees On Shared Language Around Open-Source AI, Open Weights AI

30. Květen 2026 - 11:44
Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI...

GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator

30. Květen 2026 - 11:12
GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work...

Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week

30. Květen 2026 - 10:57
KDE released Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7...

Genode OS 26.05 Released, Finishes Moving From GitHub To Codeberg

30. Květen 2026 - 10:46
Genode OS 26.05 is out this week as the latest update for this original open-source operating system framework. With Genode OS 26.05, they have taken various features of their general purpose Sculpt OS operating system and turned them into reusable framework features...

SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta Released With Initial Native Support For AMD HDMI VRR

30. Květen 2026 - 3:33
Valve tonight released their beta version of SteamOS 3.8.6 that contains a number of notable enhancements, including native HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in initial form...

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing

30. Květen 2026 - 1:14
Canonical today released the first monthly snapshot of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release...

Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility

29. Květen 2026 - 23:14
Wine 11.10 marks the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70

29. Květen 2026 - 19:41
Fresh off the funding round from HP, Fwupd 2.1.4 was christened today as the newest stable update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...

AMD ROCm 7.2.4 Released With Performance & Stability Fixes

29. Květen 2026 - 19:34
AMD's ROCm open-source compute stack is up to version 7.2.4 stable as it continues seeing new fixes while on the tech preview feature side is the recent ROCm 7.13 release...

CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major

29. Květen 2026 - 15:00
The new System76 Thelio Major powered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and optionally with the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card for an all-open-source AMD Linux stack is a mighty powerful workstation. If desiring even more compute potential out of this high-end desktop/workstation, CachyOS works pretty darn well on this new system with lofty leads over upstream Arch Linux as well as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and the stock Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution.

Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI

29. Květen 2026 - 14:39
Last week's collection of networking subsystem fixes for Linux 7.1 noted craziness continuing with no end in sight with a large pull request of fixes with many of them spurred on by AI/LLM coding agents. This week it's "significantly bigger" than prior kernel cycles for this late stage of kernel development due to this assistance of large language models...

Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain

29. Květen 2026 - 12:17
A change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance. While a big gain, technically it's a regression fix after a change mistakenly dropped the behavior several years ago...

Intel To Support DRM Background Color Property With Linux 7.2

29. Květen 2026 - 11:25
Introduced in Linux 7.1 is a dedicated CRTC background color property for DRM graphics/display drivers. The "BACKGROUND_COLOR" property can be used with capable drivers and display controllers as the default background color when not covered by any plane or from transparent regions of higher planes. With the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle, the Intel DRM driver will begin supporting this background color property...

Fedora 45 Considering Use Of PURL Metadata For Uniquely Identifying Software Packages

29. Květen 2026 - 11:01
One of the Fedora 45 change proposals under consideration at the moment is making adding PURL "Package-URL" to Fedora's package metadata for simplifying the mapping between upstream projects and Fedora packages...

Linux 7.2 To Bring Graphics Driver Fix For Old Integrated Graphics On Intel Sandy Bridge

29. Květen 2026 - 10:46
For those still making use of Intel Sandy Bridge processors from 15 years ago, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is bringing a fix for an engine reset issue when using the old integrated graphics with Sandy Bridge...